Improvement in cooking-stoves



1. H. w'ENTwoRTH.

` Cooking-Stoves. N0.149,Q00. .7I/' PateniedApril21,1874.

IINrTED SfrA'rEs PATENT OEEIGEp JAMES H. WENTWORTH, QF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

Speeilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,900, dated April 21, 1874; application filed May 16, 1873.

2 of the city of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Portable Ranges and Cooking-Stoves, of which `the following is a specification:

AIn the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a perspective View of a range embracing :my improvements, the oven occupying the space at A, the fire-box the space at B, andthe ashpan the space at' C. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of an attachment containing a hot closet, with which the range, Fig. l, may, if desired, be connected and used, the hot closet occupying the space at D, and the ash-pan the space at E.

The object of my invention is to so construct the range shown in Fig. l that it shall be adapted to be used separately or in connection with the attachment shown in Fig. 2; and

this part of my invention consists in casting the bottom plate of the range, Fig. 1, withan v opening, preferably rectangular, beneath, and of about the size of the bottom of the ash-pan, and casting, also, a second plate to it this opening as a cover. If it is desired to use the range, Fig. l, separately, this second plate is set into the opening and.made fast in place with screws. `The corresponding edges of the opening and the second plate or cover are beveled or rabbeted, when cast, to make the joints close.

If it is desired to use the range, Fig. 1, in connection with the hotcloset attachment, Fig. 2, the second plate or cover is dispensed with, or, if the range has been in use separately, is removed, and (the legs and hearth, which are `detachable,-\bcing taken oif) the range, Fig. 1, is set upon the hot-closet attachment, Fig. 2, as a base, the bottom plate of the range, Fig. l, forming also the top plate to the hot closet in Fig. 2. The ash-pan, occupying the space C in Fig. l, is taken out and replaced by a sitter-grate, and the space E in Fig. 2, situated directly beneath the opening described in the bottom plate of the range, receives the ash-pan or becomes the ash-pit.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the bottom plate of the range, Fig. 1, in which F is the second plate or cover described, tted into and made fast in the opening in the bottom plate.

I claim as my invention- In a portable range or cooking-stove made in two detachable parts, as shown, the combination of the hot-closet attachment with the bottom plate of the range, the said bottom plate being provided with the removable plate F, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

JAS H.l WENTWORTH.

Witnesses RUEUs S. LEWIS, WM. AsPINWALL. 

